The moment it became clear that Hurricane Lee was headed for the coast of Maine this month, over a year’s worth of wedding planning went out the window for Jackie Anne Brew and Robert James Hayes. The setting for their wedding was Cushing’s Island, a privately owned 266-acre island off the coast of Portland. Ms.…
Within minutes of meeting William Sam Gleason at a restaurant in the East Village of Manhattan, Fareez Giga knew that Mr. Gleason was special. At the time, Mr. Giga was actively dating with the goal of finding a serious relationship. “He was like my 250th date,” he said, jokingly. It was late January 2020, and…
On Bruce Linton Hager’s first date with Florence Leggett Buchanan in February 2018, he thought “everything was stacked against us,” Mr. Hager said. They met at Michael Jordan’s Steak House NYC in Grand Central Terminal, which has since closed. “Eighties music was blasting out of the bar,” he said. “There was a flash mob downstairs.…
Carlos Paz Jr. and Abigail Diaz had a rule: to see each other at least once a month in their mostly long-distance relationship. One of those visits — a trip to Chicago in 2018 — would test their future. In the Uber from the airport to their hotel, they talked about where things stood. Ms.…
It is unusual, doctors tell me, for a woman to become psychotic for the first time at age 50. Rarer still, I had no family history of serious mental illness. I was three years divorced, living in leafy, small-town New Jersey, when I looked out my kitchen window and saw a neighbor friend drop off…
It’s the most wonderful time of the sartorial year. The time when temperatures fluctuate just enough for us to don layers and style shoes in combinations that are unexpected, chic, and absolutely wearable. So it’s no surprise that this season, the style icon of the moment, Doja Cat, is entering the conversation to help us…
Delta Air Lines will make “modifications” to its SkyMiles frequent flier program after receiving negative feedback from customers to changes it announced this month, the company’s chief executive, Ed Bastian, said this week. The Atlanta-based airline announced on Sept. 13 that it was making changes to the program starting next year. Rather than focusing on…
Can’t get enough of the budding relationship between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce? Neither can ranch dressing. Ms. Swift, a 12-time Grammy winner whose stardom has reached new heights this year with the stratospheric success of her Eras Tour, was attending the Kansas City Chiefs’ football game on Sunday — Mr. Kelce plays tight end…
Well, well, well, what a fashion month it has been. As models have floated down catwalks all around the world—from Spring Studios to the Place du Trocadéro—I’ve been taking notes on which trends, styles, and silhouettes will be everywhere come the spring thaw. Namely, I’m breaking down the five major shoe—and footwear accessory—trends you’ll see…
In 1992, my colleague Eric Asimov invented a new column for the Times that sought out “restaurants where people can eat lavishly for $25 and under.” By the time it was retired, about a decade ago, dining out in New York had become expensive, even at the cheap end, and the column’s writers were regularly…